About
Bev Vincent is the author of Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life and Influences (nominated for a 2023 Locus Award), The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower (nominated for a Bram Stoker Award), and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award. In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or Fright (a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee) with Stephen King.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Borderlands 5, Ice Cold, and The Blue Religion. Four of his stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and another four in a CD Select eBook. His story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award. "The Honey Trap" from Ice Cold was nominated for an ITW Thriller Award in 2015 and "Zombies on a Plane" was nominated for an Ignotus Award in 2020.
His non-fiction has appeared in diverse magazines, including The Poetry Foundation, Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Screem, Pensacola Magazine and Texas Gardener. He has been a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine since 2001 and is a former member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews. He has served as a judge for the Al Blanchard, Shirley Jackson and Edgar Awards.
His work has been translated into: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, HItalian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian
Category Archives: NCIS
No sheet, Sherlock
Devoted my attention to a single writing project this morning and got a substantial amount of work done. I’m pleased. Also pleased that my first entry in the 2012 writing “ledger’ where I record my information for Schedule C is … Continue reading
The best medicine
A number of years ago, when I was visiting northern New Brunswick over the Christmas holidays, I took a drive up to Campbellton. On my return trip, I found CBC Radio and a program I’d never heard before: The Vinyl … Continue reading
Empty DVR
Join us at Bitten By Books today for the EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead chat and contest, starting at noon Central and running into the evening. The anthology authors will answer questions and there are Valuable Prizes at … Continue reading
So that’s what Gibbs has been building
I finally got around to starting to read Peter Straub’s novella “The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine,” which will appear in Conjunctions #56: Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue. As you may recall, Peter gave me the manuscript of this 16,000 word novella … Continue reading
There’s always another monster
Last night was my wife’s graduation. She received a Ph. D. from the University of Texas School of Nursing at ceremonies held at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Now she’ll have a picture of her in a floppy beret … Continue reading
Blue eyes
Made some serious forward progress on the novella this morning, jumping from just under 4000 words to a tad over 6000 by the end of my session. Not all of them are new words, exactly. Since I’m revamping an old, … Continue reading
How could I get that wrong?
Broke my promise to myself: I didn’t get around to working on the novella this morning. I got my “assignments” for World Horror in Austin in a few weeks so I had to do some prep work. The program hasn’t … Continue reading
Burden of … poof!
I finished Devil Red by Joe R. Lansdale. Now reading Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. I didn’t know much about him until a recent 60 Minutes profile. I like reading books by people who are clearly smarter and more widely read … Continue reading
First you’ll need to grep the log file
One (more) great thing about being Canadian: First, libraries buy copies of your books and stock them on their shelves. Then the Public Lending Right Commission pays you, every year, based on a sampling of how many libraries stock your … Continue reading
Elementary
Acceptance letters make me smile. I received one last night from a relatively new Canadian pro market for a story called “Matthias Comes Home From the War.” More details once all the paperwork is finished. I also received the page … Continue reading